How to Manage Students, Conduct Live Lessons, and Assign Homework on Grigo

Once you have published your course and completed your teacher profile on Grigo, you possess all the tools required to run a full-scale online teaching environment. Beyond acting as a marketplace for your courses, Grigo provides an end-to-end management dashboard where you can approve student enrolments, conduct live virtual sessions, monitor student analytics, assign interactive homework, and issue automated grades.

Understanding how to navigate these administrative and teaching tools ensures that your students enjoy a smooth, structured learning experience from their very first lesson.

Step 1: Managing Student Orders and Granting Access

When a student browses your course on Grigo and places an order, their enrolment request appears in your course dashboard under Manage orders.

Because payments on Grigo are handled directly between you and the student (via MIA payment, bank transfer, or cash), access is not granted automatically by default. You retain complete control over when a student enters your class.

Granting Access to Online Orders

1. Navigate to your published course and click Manage orders.
2. Review your pending order list. When you confirm that you have received payment from a student, locate their order entry.
3. Click the red money icon on the right side of the student’s row under the Actions column.
4. Once clicked, the order status changes to Paid, and the student instantly receives access to your lesson materials or group schedule.

Important: If you do not click the payment confirmation icon, the student will remain in Pending status and will not be able to access your lessons.

Adding a Student Manually

If a student contacts you directly or provides their email/nickname before placing an order on the platform, you can manually enrol them:

1. In the Manage orders menu, click the green + Add a student button.
2. Select the appropriate Schedule or group.
3. Enter the student’s registered platform email or nickname into the Student identifier field.
4. Select the access type:
   • Buy the full course: Grants full access to all course modules.
   • Buy lessons from the selected period: Grants access for specific calendar dates.
   • Buy a number of lessons: Grants access for a specific quantity of classes (e.g., 8 or 10 sessions).
5. Click Save.

Note: For pre-recorded video courses, students can only be enrolled for the full course.

Step 2: How to Conduct Live Lessons on Grigo

Once access is granted, you are ready to start teaching. Grigo includes a built-in virtual classroom that eliminates the need for external video links, Zoom passwords, or third-party meeting apps.

Starting a Live Session

1. Go to your courses overview and click the Teach button next to your course.
2. Select the specific group or schedule you are teaching.
3. Select the scheduled lesson for that day and time.
4. Click the green Start meeting button when you are ready to begin.

Students enrolled in that group can enter the room directly from their student portal without needing any meeting links or external software downloads.

Step 3: Tracking Progress and Student Analytics

After conducting lessons, you can review detailed performance data inside the Manage enrollments area. This dashboard serves as your central directory for active students, allowing you to monitor engagement, communicate directly, and adjust access permissions.

Viewing Real-Time Student Analytics

Clicking on an individual student’s profile within Manage enrollments reveals comprehensive analytics:

• Progress Percentage: Displays how much of the course curriculum the student has completed (e.g., 30%).
• Attendance Rate: Shows the percentage of scheduled live classes the student has attended (e.g., 61%).
• Assignments Submitted: Displays completed versus total assigned tasks (e.g., 6 / 15).
• Average Grade: Automatically calculates the student's overall performance percentage across all completed quizzes, whiteboard tasks, and homework exercises.

Managing Access and Direct Messages

Inside the student profile view, you also have access to essential management controls:

• Send a Message: Click Send a message to initiate a direct platform chat with the student regarding upcoming tasks or schedule updates.
• Block Access: If a student was added accidentally or discontinues their studies, click Block access to temporarily or permanently restrict them from entering your class sessions.

Step 4: Interactive In-Class Teaching Tools

During a live lesson, Grigo offers several interactive features designed to make online learning engaging and practical.

1. Attaching Resources and Documents

Before, during, or after a lesson, you can attach reference materials in the right-hand panel:

• Images & PDFs: Upload grammar charts, reading texts, or exercise sheets.
• Audio Files: Upload listening exercises or pronunciation guides.

All attached resources remain visible to students so they can follow along during class or review materials later.

2. Live Whiteboard Activities

The Whiteboard activity feature allows you to run interactive individual exercises during class:

1. Upload an image or background worksheet to the activity space.
2. Activate the activity for your students.
3. Each student opens the activity individually on their device, allowing them to draw, match pairs, write text, or tick options directly on the screen.
4. Once finished, students submit their work back to you in real time.

This tool allows you to check individual understanding immediately during class and decide if certain students require additional practice on a topic.

3. In-Class Quizzes and Assessments

To evaluate learning during class, you can build custom tests using the Test Activity builder:

• Single Choice Questions: Automatically checked and scored by the system.
• Multiple Choice Questions: Automatically checked and scored by the system.
• Open-Ended Questions: Graded manually by the teacher, allowing you to review written answers and award points individually.

Step 5: Assigning and Grading Homework

Extending learning beyond live sessions is essential for student progress. Grigo includes a dedicated Homework tab directly inside each lesson view.

Creating a Homework Assignment

1. Open your lesson and navigate to the Homework tab.
2. Enter a clear Homework Name and set the Maximum Score available for the assignment.
3. Set an "Until date" (due date) for completion.

Flexible Submissions: Even after the "Until date" passes, students can still open and complete the homework assignment. The system records the submission date so you can see if it was completed past the deadline.

Adding Study Resources and Interactive Activities

To help students revise or complete their homework independently, you can attach:

• Reference Files: Images, PDF documents, or audio clips for revision.
• Interactive Whiteboard Tasks: Upload worksheets where students can draw lines, match items, tick correct options, or select/deselect answers directly on their screen.
• Quizzes & Tests: Attach single-choice, multiple-choice, or open-ended tests for homework practice.

Checking Homework and Updating the Average Grade

Once students submit their homework, you can review their work inside the dedicated Homework area of your platform:

1. Open the submitted homework entry to view the student's whiteboard drawings or test answers.
2. Review open-ended questions and award the appropriate points.
3. Click save.

The system automatically calculates the final marks for the assignment and updates the student’s Average Grade on their profile dashboard.

Step 6: Configuring Automatic Grading Scales

To convert total exercise and homework points into official student marks, Grigo includes a flexible Mark scale generator.

Setting Up a Grading Threshold

1. Open the Mark scale generator and enter the maximum score (e.g., 100 points).
2. Click Generate thresholds. The platform will automatically calculate proportional grade bands (e.g., 0–10 points = Grade 1, 10–20 points = Grade 2, up to 90–100 points = Grade 10).
3. Choose your preferred grading scale type:
   • Numerical: Standard numeric grades (e.g., 1 to 10).
   • Alphabetical: Letter grades (e.g., A, B, C, D, F).
   • Word-Based: Descriptive grades (e.g., Excellent, Good, Satisfactory).

Once configured, the system automatically converts raw test and homework scores into official grades, maintaining full transparency for both students and parents.

Conclusion

Managing an online course on Grigo goes far beyond simply uploading lesson slides. By actively approving student orders, conducting live interactive sessions, tracking attendance analytics, assigning interactive homework, and using automated grading scales, you create a complete, highly professional digital classroom.

Log into your Grigo dashboard today, explore your course management tools, and start delivering structured, engaging lessons to your students.